Best of Luck – Malaga, Spain

…Look, he says, pointing at the cover, ‘Princess Diana visits Africa’. He presses the magazine into my hand and dives back into the trunk. A golf ball!  he exclaims excitedly, and gives it to me. Do you play golf my dear boy? he asks… Trying to hitch out of Malaga, Spain.  The morning is cold…

Horse’s Breakfast – Cordoba, Spain

…When I was a kid, my mother gave us ‘horse’s breakfast’ before school. Horse’s breakfast? I ask, perplexed. It is fresh bread soaked in red wine. So you had bread soaked in wine, and then went to school?   How old were you..? Alvaro, a Portuguese gent whose acquaintance was made in Chefchaouen, offers a…